X-Git-Url: https://git.cworth.org/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=initial_tagging.mdwn;h=8aa2f916a87a08515b321cfc38a949c572a45f89;hb=87440cbc1d12fc3a860289b11d7b850b538dcf3d;hp=023ef9c45f1bcdb736cbf9e35120e4c805c36afb;hpb=8b00eae45df7add7db98de0b2e7c8c718a3c3248;p=notmuch-wiki diff --git a/initial_tagging.mdwn b/initial_tagging.mdwn index 023ef9c..8aa2f91 100644 --- a/initial_tagging.mdwn +++ b/initial_tagging.mdwn @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +[[!img notmuch-logo.png alt="Notmuch logo" class="left"]] # Approaches to initial tagging of messages This page collects scripts and strategies for organizing mail using @@ -19,34 +20,49 @@ following: notmuch tag -new -- tag:new and from:me@example.com # delete all messages from a spammer: - notmuch tag +deleted -- from:spam@spam.com + notmuch tag +deleted -- tag:new and from:spam@spam.com # tag all message from notmuch mailing list - notmuch tag +notmuch -- to:notmuch@notmuchmail.org + notmuch tag +notmuch -- tag:new and to:notmuch@notmuchmail.org - # finally, retag all "new" messages s "inbox" and "unread" + # finally, retag all "new" messages "inbox" and "unread" notmuch tag +inbox +unread -new -- tag:new Since the post-processing is only acting on a few messages, it is -generally extrememly fast. +generally extremely fast. +You can use the `post-new` hook, which is automatically run after `notmuch new`, +to do post-processing. See `man notmuch-hooks` for details on hooks. -# Other solutions - -* [This - email](http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2010/001691.html) - (and related thread) details Carl Worth's approach to tagging. It is - email id:87r5o8stbj.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org in the notmuch mailing - list archives. +# Other solutions -* [This - email](http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2010/001690.html) - (and related thread) details one user's setup, which includes using - the inbox tag as a "new mail" flag. It is email - id:87hbp5j9dv.fsf@hackervisions.org in the notmuch mailing list - archives. - +* [Carl Worth's approach to tagging](http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2010/001691.html). It + is email id:87r5o8stbj.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org in the notmuch + mailing list archives. + + +* [One user's setup](http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2010/001690.html) + (id:87hbp5j9dv.fsf@hackervisions.org), which includes using the + inbox tag as a "new mail" flag. + +* [Another user's setup](http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2011/003976.html) + (id:"87tyfu3k5a.fsf@gmail.com"), which uses a dedicated tag for + marking new mail, which is then sorted with a python script using + Bogofilter for spam detection. This is generally a great deal + faster than a shell-scripted approach. This approach introduces a + workflow built around a "watch" tag. Here, the user is only + presented with threads as they are started. At this point the user + can choose to watch the thread, in which case future messages will + be tagged with "inbox", or ignore it. This provides an excellent + means for dealing with a large flux of messages with a low + signal-to-noise. + +* [afew](https://github.com/teythoon/afew) is an initial tagging + solution that should work out of the box for most basic tagging + needs (mailinglist handling, killed thread handling, autoarchiving + of sent mails) and has some fancy features (e.g. mail classification + using bayesian filters). # Notmuch Delivery Agent -- `notmuch-deliver`